Nov 29, 2012 - Sale 2296

Sale 2296 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
"WASHINGTON ORDERS THAT SOME MEN . . . BE TRAINED TO THE CANNON" (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) MCDOUGALL, ALEXANDER. Letter Signed, "Alex'rMcDougall," to General Clinton, thanking him for entreating the troops to remain after the expiration of their terms of service, sending Dubois's Regiment with 100 pounds of arms and cartouche boxes and bayonets, requesting to be informed of arms being sent to recruits, conveying General George Washington's orders that some regiments at the forts [Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton] be trained to operate cannons until artillery recruits arrive, and asking what is necessary for the defense of the forts. 1 page, tall 4to; mounted along left edge to a larger sheet, folds. (JMR) "Head Quarters Peekskill," NY, 5 March 1777

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". . . I thank you for . . . prevailing on some of the Troops to remain at that Post after their time of Service expired. I have sent . . . for Colonel Dubois's Regiment, one hundred pound of Arms . . . . General Washington orders that some men of the Regiments Quartered in the Forts should be trained to the Cannon . . . . It is necessary a return should be made . . . of the Stores at both the Forts of every Kind; and what will be necessary for the proper defence of them? . . . ."